From the Story “the house on mango street” they started out in a small house on the third floor of an apartment.They were not financially stable and were in and out of houses. It was six of them and they moved to mango street and It said “we dont have to pay rent to anybody ,or share the yard with people downstairs” but they were told wrong. The House was small and it didnt even have real stairs . In the passage “a smart cookie” She talks to her mother and she said “you know why i quit school?Because i didnt have nice clothes but i had brains
,so she is saying she was gonna use her brains to go out in the real world and live in the city.In the essay “no speak english” the man worked two jobs to bring the mamacita to the city,and he worked two jobs and left early in the morning and made it back late a night.He didnt eat but hamandeggs but he stop eating them after a few months